Gilded Age, Urbanization, and Immigration

Which group had a racial hatred of immigrants, since they took jobs from Americans for lower wages. 

• Nativists

• Political bosses

• Miners

• Labor leaders

Which law gave farmland to citizens in order to move to the Great Plains?

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Stamp Act

• Great Plains Act

• Homestead Act

Which group provided basic services for immigrants & the poor for votes & made illegal fortunes

• Nativist

• Labor Unions

• Political Machines

• Robber Barons

During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the US found work as-

• Educated professionals

• skilled workers

• Factory/sweatshop workers

• Scientists

Which island did European immigrants register to live in the U.S?

• Galveston

• Long

• Ellis

• Angel

Which of the following was NOT a problem labor unions fought for?

• shorter hours

• lower pay

• no child labor

• safer working conditions

Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?

• Interstate Commerce Act 

• Homestead Act

• Sherman AntiTrust Act

• Dawes Act

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 

• geopolitical

• political bosses

• anthropolgy

• philanthropy

Because of the rapid growth of Industrilization in the North people moved out of rural towns to?

• Rural farms

• Urbanzied cities

• Subrebs cities

• El rancho

A group of companies in the same industry giving day-to-day operation of their companies over to a single board of directors.

• monopoly

• corporation

• trust

• horizontal Integration